Hospital Care at Home in the Continuum of Care for Sepsis (CE Session)
Description:
Date/Time: September 26, 2024 | 12:15 - 12:45 am ET
Innovative hospital care at home programs can play a pivotal role in the continuum of care for sepsis patients. This session will illuminate how early discharge combined with hospital-level care at home can enhance patient experience and optimize bed capacity. Learn how to identify sepsis patients suitable for home care and discover the clinical advantages of this approach, including improved outcomes and patient satisfaction. The presenter will discuss the pathways and monitoring systems that ensure safe and effective care, demonstrating the transformative impact of this program on both patients and healthcare facilities and how home-based hospital care is reshaping sepsis management.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this session, the learner should be able to:
- Identify patients who can be cared for in a Hospital Care at Home Program;
- Recognize the clinical benefits of enrolling in Hospital Care at Home.
Target Audience:
Nurses, advanced practice providers, physicians, emergency responders, pharmacists, medical technologists, respiratory therapists, physical/occupational therapists, infection prevention specialists, data/quality specialists, and more.
Grace Jenq, MD
Clinical Professor, Geriatric and Palliative Medicine; Associate Chief Clinical Officer, Post-Acute Care Services
University of Michigan Medicine
Grace Jenq, MD, received her medical degree from Johns Hopkins University. She completed her residency and chief residency in internal medicine at the University of Alabama Birmingham. She continued her fellowship training in Geriatrics at Yale University and stayed on as faculty from 2005-2016. At Yale-New Haven Hospital she served as the Associate Chair for Patient Safety and Quality and the Medical Director for Inpatient Medicine. In 2016, she joined the University of Michigan Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Care Medicine. She is now a Professor in the Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Care Medicine at the University of Michigan and the Associate Chief Clinical Officer for Post-Acute Care at Michigan Medicine. She cares for patients in the Michigan House Calls Program, Patient Monitoring at Home Program, and the newly established Hospital Care at Home Program. Her quality improvement and academic interests lie in how to create better models to care for elderly persons within their own homes and how to enhance transitions of care out of the hospital by engaging clinicians and patients/caregivers and improving system design. In the Department of Medicine, she is a member of the Clinical Excellence Society, and she received the Chairperson’s IMPACT Award in 2021.
Summit 2024 Session: Hospital Care at Home in the Continuum of Care for Sepsis (CE Session)
Session Day/Time: Thursday, September 26, 2024, 12:15 PM - 12:45 PM EST
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP17068 for 0.6 contact hours.
Other healthcare professionals will receive a certificate of attendance for 0.5 contact hours.
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